Re: progress on OE organization issues

["Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <mickey@vanille-media.de>]

On Friday 05 June 2009 23:43:58 Cliff Brake wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, GNUtoo<GNUtoo@no-log.org> wrote:
> > by the way why don't we join an umbrella organization?
>
> The is the response I received from SFC folks:
>
> ========================
> As for your question with regard to how long an application takes,
> typically we are 6-8 month backlogged.  I can tell you though, that
> we've had another application pending for more than a year in the same
> eV situation you are considering here.  We simply don't have the
> resources yet to devote to that question, despite a project still
> awaiting that answer.
> ========================
>
> So, I guess you get what you pay for.  Not that we are moving any
> faster with the eV, but I guess the bottom line is that it is not easy
> unless you are paying someone to dedicate time to keeping it moving.

Indeed. Not to mention that we evaluated all the options (including joining 
one of the umbrella orgs) alreadyy before attempting to create the e.V.

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